Charlie Rose

NeilMacCallister  09/27/2012 04:42 PM Report

Yes, komi, ..America is becoming more like Saudi Arabia.

Karen House: "The Royals want their population totally dependent upon the Royal Family for all the necessities of life like water, food, education, jobs, and HealthCare."

"But the people are now voicing resentment that the government is living so rich, while the people are not getting what was promised."

"And there was a time when the Saudi's were happy for Obama, but now they see him as a man who has done nothing."

By the way, Ms. House, are the reports true that say it was the Saudis who financed Barack Obama through college and law school?

kamikazeechawly  09/25/2012 08:00 PM Report

... Rich Republican, .. that is

kamikazeechawly  09/25/2012 07:56 PM Report

America is becoming more and more like Saudi Arabia, minus the religous crap.

For them, money grows on trees. Now that the (American) rich knows they don't have to work or risk for their lifestyles, the government guarantees it, they aren't going to do shit, but take, take and TAKE. The stock market doing great, but where are the jobs?. Gee, I wonder. .. who needs jobs when the government grows it on trees for the rich.?.

REMant  09/21/2012 11:20 AM Report

According to Mehran Kamrava in his A Political History of the Middle East: "Officially, the Saud 'dynasty' dates back to 1726, when a certain Muhammad ibn Saud settled in and started ruling over the city of Dara'iyah, northwest of Riyadh. In 1745 he met and was won over by the puritanical ideas of a traveling sheikh (literally, teacher) named Muhammad ibn Abdel Wahhab. Thus ensued a powerful alliance between the two Muhammads, with one in charge of military command and the other motivating the religio-ideological zeal of the Wahhabi movement. The Wahhabis were, more accurately, unitarians (Muwwahidun, from wahid, 'one') who sought to reverse what they perceived to be the corruption of Islam's rigid monotheism by the increasing tendency among believers, particularly Shi'ites and Sufis, to deify certain individuals. The Muwwahidun’s spread was fast and ferocious — resulting in the sacking of Karbala in 1802 and the occupation of Mecca and Medina in 1803 and 1805, respectively — but it was not irreversible ...Not until 1902 did a twenty-one-year-old member of the Saud family, Abdel Aziz ibn Abd el-Rahman, recapture Riyadh in a daring raid and from there go on to become the king of Arabia. ...By all accounts, however, Abdel Aziz was a brave warrior who, through a series of military conquests, the spread of Wahhabi doctrine, and countless marriages, gradually brought all of Arabia under his control. Throughout, he was aided in his endeavors by the British,... In May 1933, however, the Saudi government signed an oil concession agreement with the Standard Oil of California Company, which changed its name first to the California Arabian Standard Oil Company and then to the Arabian American Oil Company, Aramco. ...The discovery was made in 1935 in Dhahran, and commercial exploitation began in 1938. By 1939, the once-impoverished kingdom was receiving an annual royalty of about £200,000 in gold... But the old desert warrior was no modern statesman and knew little about state finances and budgetary matters. By the time of his death in 1953, the country was once again on the verge of bankruptcy. ...The royal family eventually deposed Saud in November 1964. In the reign of Faisal (r. 1964-82) a concerted effort was made to bring about political institutionalization by creating a modern bureaucracy and introducing procedural formality into the affairs of the state."